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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Fri Aug 27 11:43:49 2010 Subject: Here is a front shot of Southern 401 in the shops at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL, on August 19, 2010, one of the regular Thursday work sessions held year round. Following a 15-year restoration, the engine will run for the first time since 1964 in September. image/jpeg, 860x1255 (24bit) 401_Front_No_People.jpg 142520 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Mon Sep 20 15:44:42 2010 Subject: On Friday afternoon, September 17, Southern Railway steam locomotive No. 401 sat under the smoke jack in the engine house as wisps of smoke came out of the stack. Engine was fired up for final testing before Railroad Days at the Monticello Railway Museum and later took a two-car special with members aboard to the Lions Club Fish Fry downtown. image/jpeg, 1200x900 (24bit) 401_in_Enginehouse.jpg 164618 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Fri Aug 27 11:46:58 2010 Subject: Here is a left side shot of Southern 401 in the shops at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL, on August 19, 2010 showing the reassembled rods. image/jpeg, 1200x900 (24bit) 401_Rods_Front_Left.jpg 164776 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Fri Aug 27 12:00:29 2010 Subject: A million little details are involved in restoring a 1907 steam locomotive to operating condition, including the new steps that go adjacent to the pilot of Southern Railway No. 401 at the Monticello Railway Museum on August 19, 2010. image/jpeg, 1391x776 (24bit) 401_Steps_Primed.jpg 89714 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Fri Aug 27 11:57:07 2010 Subject: New pipes for Southern 401's sanders were bent around the tires of another steamer on hand at the Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello IL on August 19, 2010. Snagging one end of the pipe in the brake rigging, two volunteers wrapped it around the driver tire, later cutting the ends to fit up with the descending pipe from the sand dome. image/jpeg, 794x1359 (24bit) Bending_Sand_Pipes_a.jpg 168479 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Sun Sep 12 16:39:43 2010 Subject: While things are bustling in the steam shops as half a dozen mechanics work to get Souther Railway 301 ready for its debut next weekend, regular museum trains operated with CN 6789, an FPA-4, built in 1959. To the left is the former Deland IL Illinois Central depot now dubbed Nelson's Crossing after an original IT stop at the road. image/jpeg, 1248x863 (24bit) CNrunsSaturday.jpg 161615 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Mon Sep 20 15:50:26 2010 Subject: Museum members on hand rode a special downtown to the Lions Club Fish Fry in the community build in Monticello IL. The restored Souther Railway No. 401 sat for about an hour in town as admiring spectators gathered around for pictures or just to look. image/jpeg, 1283x841 (24bit) Friday_Fish_Train.jpg 153973 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Fri Aug 27 15:09:25 2010 Subject: The front deck plate was plasma cut at Heritage Machine Shop in Bloomington IL to fit around the braces and the upper end of the front truck suspension, which slides up and down as the engine go into a curve, somehow adjusting the distribution of weight through a complicated levers and fulcrums (or so I was told). image/jpeg, 1230x878 (24bit) FrontDeck001.jpg 178521 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Thu Jul 26 10:45:20 2012 Subject: After a hot day pulling the museum's train, Southern 401 awaits orders to put the consist into the newly-built car storage barn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVhIGV5vxQ image/jpeg, 1274x846 (24bit) July21_22Sou401ad.jpg 168299 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Sun Sep 12 16:35:43 2010 Subject: Two of the heroes of the Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 401 are Kent McClure (left) and Dave Marshall. When I asked Dave how the engine ran when he opened the throttle for the first time, he said it was like a Swiss watch, meaning it glided along with track without a sound. No clanking rods like regular engines. image/jpeg, 859x1257 (24bit) KentAndDave.jpg 138908 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Thu Jul 26 10:47:03 2012 Subject: Southern 401 is ready to return to the museum grounds on Saturday, July 21 during steam weekend. image/jpeg, 1157x933 (24bit) May22Sou401ab.jpg 154143 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Thu Jul 26 11:01:21 2012 Subject: Southern 401 poses at the Nelsons Crossing depot on the ground of the Monticello Railway Musseum. image/jpeg, 1135x949 (24bit) Nelsons.jpg 172735 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Sun Sep 12 16:24:39 2010 Subject: Last time I went to Monticello the pilot was a skeleton and mechanics were debating how to get both the crimped end and the right angle to make the boiler tubes flay out in the proper (and symetrical) direction. They obviously figured it out and the result looks perfect. image/jpeg, 1247x864 (24bit) Pilot.jpg 210719 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Mon Sep 20 15:47:54 2010 Subject: Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 2 p.m., locomotive mechanics and those who worked behind the scenes to bring Southern Railway back to life posed for a rebuilders photo on the grounds of the Monticello Railway Museum. image/jpeg, 1365x789 (24bit) Rebuilders_Photo.jpg 172795 bytes |
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From: "Ted Lemen" hi_jeanx -AT- yahoo -DOT- com Date: Sun Sep 12 16:27:13 2010 Subject: Following a successful test run on Friday, September 10, 2010, Southern Railway 401 was back in the shops with a list of things that needed to be corrected. None of them seemed monumental, and several were already checked off the list attached with a magnet to the tender. image/jpeg, 950x1133 (24bit) WishList.jpg 96365 bytes |
